- Let me tell yinz about
Halloween.. In 1985..
The things I saw and
creatures I battled.My name is Donny -
Donny Johnstown -
at least that's what
my friends call me...
cause I'm Donny...
from Johnstown.
I just moved here to
Possum Hollow and I'm
the reason the town is
no longer haunted!I saved everyone from
the haunts that were
destroying this town.This is how it all
went down......Intro scroll.
Haunted Halloween '85 is a Homebrew Action Beat 'em Up Platform Game by Retrotainment Games.
The year is 1985, and Donny is the new kid in the town of Possum Hollow, having moved there from Johnstown. It's the Halloween season, and the Halloween Dance is coming up at school. Donny plans to ask Tami to it, the first step in his plan to ultimately hook up with her. Unfortunately, he woke up a little late, and had to rush to school to avoid getting in trouble, and running the risk of being barred from the dance.
When he reaches the school, however, the place looks like a war zone. Not knowing what happened, he investigates the school and finds it overrun with ghosts and zombies. Now he needs to fight off these horrors, get to the bottom of this, and save the town.
The game was released on October 30th, 2016. It also has a sequel, Haunted Halloween '86: The Curse Of Possum Hollow.
Haunted Halloween '85 contains examples of:
- The '80s: The game is set in 1985.
- Alliterative Name: The soda that acts as Video-Game Lives is called Serum Soda.
- Creepy Cemetery: Naturally, one of the levels Donny explores is a graveyard.
- Feathered Fiend: Enemies in the game include black birds who will dive-bomb onto Donny from above if he's underneath them.
- Floating Platforms: Part of its 8-bit NES inspiration.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Donny's primary weapons in the game are his two fists.
- Homebrew Video Games: The game was made for the NES and ported to Steam.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Donny can eat pieces of candy corn to regain health.
- Undeathly Pallor: The zombies in the game have green skin. Donny also gains green skin if he runs out of health, resulting in zombification.
- Video-Game Lives: Serum Soda acts as this.
